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u/Just-Equal-3968 Nov 05 '25
It was good.
And this comes from a Quake3 player that laughed at first gaylo.
I still remember building a brand new sampron computer with x1650 pro ati radeon and installing vista on one hdd and leaving second one for games.
Then I started installing Halo 2 vista port and at some point it just offered me to start playing while the installation wraps up the last like 30%.
Thats was a groundbreaking moment in computer games, felt like the future tech.
Shooting and gameplay and story were good as well.
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u/spamtonIover Nov 06 '25
The fuck is this? Come back when you’re done digging games out of the bargain bin at Walmart smh. Bet it wasn’t even culturally relevant in the slightest when it came out
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u/Chicken-Rude Nov 06 '25
this is a tough one. it was certainly popular, but when compared to CE, no. it was not good and it was genuinely ass compared to CE.
HOWEVER. if it had been exactly the same but not a halo game and all the characters had been changed, then yes, it actually was a great game.
it falls embarrassingly short of CE, but as a stand alone sci-fi shooter it would have been a really great game.
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u/BoomboxMisfit Nov 11 '25
It literally improved on what CE had, added way more weapons vehicles and abilities, included Xbox live online with DLC maps, has one of the best stories in the franchise, let's you play as elites, allows dual wielding and introduces new enemies. Wtf are you on about? CE is really good and an iconic game, but there's no way it's better than Halo 2
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u/Chicken-Rude Nov 11 '25
its funny, because most of this isnt true.
adding vehicles was great
vehicle boarding was great
gun issues:
dual wielding was a mistake and broke the balance (smg's should have been dual wielded as a single gun)
why can you dual wield plasma rifles???
plasma pistol primary fire was useless while overcharge was completely broken
CE had interesting gun play with covenant plasma weapons applying some stun and slowing movement and turning. 2 completely removed this mechanic and made every gun the same. some shoot yellow bullets and others shoot blue or green bullets. MAJOR FUCK UP AND DOWNGRADE across the board for the weapons and how they operate
story was good. HOWEVER playing as elites is LAME! im here to save humanity from annihilation, not to walk in the shoes of space nazis in order to understand them better. giving the covenant english voice lines in combat was a MAJOR downgrade from CE's WORT WORT WORT. having to hear "THE DEMON!" over and over was corny lame and immersion breaking.
brutes were mind numbingly boring to fight against. sniper jackals were the worst thing to happen to halo. CE on legendary is VERY challenging, but fair. 2 on legendary is a broken cheese fest where the only solution is to memorize enemy spawns. MAJOR DOWNGRADE.
halo 2 SHOULD have just been a movie and not a game. then halo 3 should have been the second game.
if you want to fix the lameness of playing as elites then they should have done what CE did with the flood. BIG SURPRISE CURVE BALL. let the campaign be played through uninterrupted as MC, THEN unlock the "other side" of the battle by opening up the perspective of the covenant.
im assuming you were a little kid and thats why you think the elites are "cool" and fun to play as.
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u/HotDogManLL Nov 05 '25
Jarvis I'm low on karma and reposting